"You will never believe what people take it into their heads to ask for: everything from, 'Send two autographed first editions of Mockingbird' to 'Send $850 to help me get a new TV-VCR machine so I can look at the movie.' They don't even say please".
has 10 regally decorated colonial-style suites on a side street in Polanco equipped with the works -- kitchen, Jacuzzi bath, VCR, fax machines -- and a good restaurant downstairs.
Owned and operated by Kip and Leslie Dunbar, these two condos, Puunana and Pauwalu, each come with two bedrooms, kitchens, VCRs, washing machines and, most important, views right on the beach.
In his modern masterpiece, "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", the late Douglas Adams described a VCR as "a machine you use to watch television for you".
McLuhan hypothesized that borderless electronic media would undermine the nation-state, a notion that seemed unlikely at the height of the cold war but that seems more relevant in an age in which people use fax machines, VCR's, satellite dishes, cell phones and computers to receive information their governments don't want them to have.
Science fiction writers would soon finger other, seemingly more fantastical villains: "fonografic" recordings, "telephonic sermons," VCR-like "Babble Machines," microfilm-esque "reading-machine bobbins" and "spools which projected books".
All around were the belongings of a devotee of sports and clothes: fitted caps of sports teams, a TV, VCR, a video game machine with a football game.
He and his wife, who have no children, live in a two-room apartment with a kitchen and a host of appliances, including a refrigerator, washing machine, television, VCR, CD player and telephone.
In the 1984 Sony Betamax case, the Supreme Court ruled that Sony could not be prohibited from making and selling VCR's because the machines were "capable of substantial noninfringing uses" even though they could be illegally used.
This is an economic classification based on market power comprising a group of specific indicators such as number of bathrooms, number of full-time domestic servants, number of cars owned by the family, possession of domestic items such as television sets, radio sets, VCRs, vacuum cleaners, washing machine, fridges, freezers; and level of education of the head of household.
